Job 35:5
Good News Translation
Look at the sky! See how high the clouds are!

New Revised Standard Version
Look at the heavens and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you.

Contemporary English Version
Look up to the heavens

New American Bible
Look up to the skies and see; behold the heavens high above you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.

Look

Job 22:12 Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?

Job 25:5,6 Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight. . . .

Job 36:26-33 Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable. . . .

Job 37:1-5,22,23 At this my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place. . . .

1 Kings 8:27 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

Psalm 8:3,4 For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded. . . .

Isaiah 40:22,23 It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. . . .

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.

the clouds

Job 36:29 If he will spread out clouds as his tent,

Job 37:16 Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect knowledges?

Nahum 1:3 The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind, and clouds are the dust of his feet.

Context
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
4Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee. 5Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.6If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?…
Cross References
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.

Job 11:8
He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do? he is deeper than hell, and how wilt thou know?

Job 22:12
Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?

Job 35:4
Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.

Psalm 8:3
For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

Job 35:4
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